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Topic: What's up with WinPatrol? (Read 5561 times)

So, I was looking to update WinPatrol on an old machine, and went to the website, but got blocked by safe browsing filter in Firefox. I skipped past it, assuming it was some kind of error, and noticed MBAM blocking access to some site while it was loading. I switched to Chrome, and the site was blocked there too .

All the downloads appeared to be from c-net now, so I figured I could wait with updating till I figured out what was going on.

Funny. I upgraded just a bit before then. Then again if you have phishing protection enabled in chrome browser and download one of my programs it asks effectively "You sure you want to download that? Nobody else is."

Yeah... i sent them an e-mail about it, and they said they knew... but not having a person or a direct way to communicate with google had proven very frustrating. They are in the process of proving that it's a false result... but in the meantime, they're losing sales.

Google has a False Positive on our WinPrivacy installer. Yet, if you look on Virus Total (A site owned by Google), you will find our software is clean.

-WinPrivacy

The problem is that the group responsible for detecting “Potentially Unwanted Programs” is sequestered from the outside world. There is absolutely no way we’ve been able to find to contact them and from communication with people in the security industry we are not alone in being falsely accused by Google with no way to appeal.

Even using Google’s Web Master Tools does not give a software vendor a way of appealing a false positive.

-WinPrivacy

Because of this false positive, we have moved the WinPrivacy installer to our site at winpatroltogo.com to prevent customers from being blocked from our PLUS data.

However before you can download, you will need to disable the over zealous security in Chrome and regrettably now in Firefox as well (starting with V40) first.You can disable the warning messages in Chrome as follows:

Open Chrome and go into Settings by clicking on the icon upper right that looks like 3 horizontal lines Scroll to the bottom and click on Advanced Uncheck the box “Enable phishing & malware protection

That’s it.

-WinPrivacy

You can disable the warning messages in Firefox as follows:

Click on the three horizontal lines located in the upper-right of the screen Select Options Next, click on “Security” in the left hand menu In the General section, uncheck “Block reported attack sites”

We are sorry for this inconvenience, but in the end this is because of Google and their insistence to hide behind the Internet and automation and refusal to interact with human beings. If you do not like this inconvenience, uninstall Chrome and uninstall Firefox.

This thread made me actually install WinPrivacy and WinPatrol. I bought them during the 'last great hurrah because lifetime licenses are going away" and thought maybe I should check to see if the license information they sent me actually works.

Two things -

First: Holy crap! I can't believe what they are charging for these two programs now! I paid less than half of an annual license fee for one product & got two lifetime licenses.

Second: Holy crap again! These two programs look like their UIs escaped from the early 90s.

This thread made me actually install WinPrivacy and WinPatrol. I bought them during the 'last great hurrah because lifetime licenses are going away" and thought maybe I should check to see if the license information they sent me actually works.

Two things -

First: Holy crap! I can't believe what they are charging for these two programs now! I paid less than half of an annual license fee for one product & got two lifetime licenses.

Second: Holy crap again! These two programs look like their UIs escaped from the early 90s.

Agreed on both. He tried to make the new one (WinPrivacy) look more modern. He failed.

But their functionality can't be beat. It's like having someone looking at your computer while you're using it, and seeing if someone else is trying to screw you and warning you. It can be annoying with the pop ups saying do you want to authorize this... but it's saved me a lot of time fixing the wife and kids computers...